Cattle underpass scheme gets $2m boost

Victoria's Agriculture Minister has allocated $2 million to build more road underpasses across regional Victoria for the safe transporting of live cattle.

The State Government is continuing the decade-old cattle underpass scheme and the latest funding is expected to last for the next two years.

Minister Peter Walsh says Victoria's livestock farmers can now apply for up to $50,000 worth of construction costs to build more local underpasses.

"When it was first introduced, there was a huge uptake," he said.

"The uptake rate has obviously been slower now because the majority of people have actually put in their underpasses but the program is still there because there is still a need for some people who want to do it."

The Victorian Farmers Federation is running the program on behalf of the Government.

President Peter Tuhoey says he hopes it will help achieve the goal of doubling Victoria's food and fibre production by 2030.

"It's a great initiative. It certainly aids in the safety of road users as well as farm workers [and] also helps us with our productivity," he said.

"So it's important the dairy industry continues to grow, initiatives like this help it do that and hopefully we can achieve some of the targets government has set us."